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Pochettino is the obvious choice if we’re able to convince him to come in, although that seems unlikely. Doesn’t seem to be in the frame atm, but I wouldn’t be against Adkins coming in, since he was always good at getting the players to shut everything else out and focus on the next game. He probably wouldn’t be the worst option in the Championship next season either, if we don’t manage to somehow drag ourselves out of the bottom three (or two, depending on what happens with Man City)

Weird thing is, we were genuinely brilliant in that game, in every position. It was one of our most deserved wins against one of the top teams in years. Something came together in that game and it’s a shame Jones couldn’t drag that out of the players under the pressure of the relegation battle as well.

Played really well for the first 70 minutes, pressing well with the new signings giving us a far better presence up front for hold up play and a bit of a cutting edge. Then we stopped pressing, probably a combination of being against 10 men giving us a false sense of security and players tiring. Then a combination of an absolute horror show defending and the wrong subs too late did for us.

Nice to see you doing your bit for recycling bringing up those old fallacies yet again. I’ve lost count of how many times they’ve demonstrably been shown to be utterly ****witted now.

‘somehow’ otherwise known as Ryan Gosney, ridiculous game from Sholing’s keeper! Massive result, 12 point lead in the league now, albeit with Totton having three games in hand.

Couldn’t have been much worse overall today.

That’s only the second game Arsenal have lost this season, it certainly wasn’t all down to Dyche and Everton today.

Everton aren’t used to pressing like this, it’s already starting to look like they’re done this game.

Dyche’s main strength tends more towards making teams more difficult to beat and more difficult to score against. Everton’s main weakness is that they’ve only scored 15 goals in 20 games, 20% of those were by arguably their best striker this season, and he’s just been sold. That’s far worse than Burnley did in getting relegated. Obviously how the season plays out isn’t known yet, but today I’d far rather be in our shoes than Everton’s. I don’t think Everton have anything like the performance we showed against Man City in them, for example.

11pm for at least the deal sheet to be submitted for the Premier League window.

Credit to Saints for that second half. Really were nearly back in it and made it very uncomfortable for Newcastle. Another ‘what could have been’ unfortunately.

Ohhhhhh That was an incredible through ball

What a finish! Still in with a slight chance! At least we’ve ended that clean sheet record if nothing else.

Certainly not out of this yet. Showed enough in the 2nd half to say we’ll have a chance of going through.

Gerrrrrin!

Not troubled them too much, but in turn haven’t been troubled too much ourselves either. Not that you’d know that from Radio Newcastle on commentary. Standard 1st leg so far really.

"I felt it was enough to go down..." Cheating ****ing ****.

Utterly cheated by the worthless cheating ****ing ****s officiating today. Villa cheating every time they got tackled got them the three points despite being by far the worst team we’ve seen at St Mary’s this season. Utter ****ing scandal.

Get in! JWP Now time for a lie down...

If it's the one I'm thinking of, I think the touch from Alvarez was going wide and then a defender knocked it towards the goal.

Worst draw out of who’s left and away 2nd leg. Still, it’s better than being drawn against City and set up another possible Saints - Man United final. Would love us to play like we did tonight and set the record straight from 2017.

Bloody hell. That’s as close to a perfect performance from Saints as I’ve ever seen. Unbelievable. Lyanco MotM for me but could have been any one of them.

It's been a while since we've seen a half of football quite that good.

WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!?!?

Wolves must be seething after seeing that goal disallowed.